<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">HELEN KELLER''S JOURNAL 1936-1937, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1938. Hardcover, stated First Edition. 8vo, 313pp, Inscribed on FFEP "To Pearl / With grateful memories / of her sweet hospitality / Sincerely / Helen Keller / October [24]th 1939" (possibly Pearl S. Buck, with whom Keller had an ongoing friendship). Publisher''s original red cloth boards with gilt-stamped cover and spine, deckle fore-edge; dust jacket is present albeit missing front interior flap. Also included is a letter dated February 29, 1944 sent from Helen Keller regarding fundraising for the American Foundation for the Blind; with facsimile signature. Note: Records of the correspondence from Pearl S Buck to Helen Keller can be found online. One begins, "I have just this morning finished reading the book you gave me. I cannot tell you how I value it, not only because you gave it to me, and inscribed it with your own hands, but also because it records such…"

CONDITION: Book in Good Condition, evenly toned pages, front cover and FFEP show slight dampstaining; previous owners'' bookplate pasted inside cover; DJ missing front interior flap, chips along spine and edges.